Solving Android SDK ‘No Such File or Directory’ error in Eclipse

I’ve hit this problem a few times now but this time I should probably write it down for my own sanity. Over the weekend I upgraded to Mint 13 (which is brilliant by the way) and because my laptop is running 6GB of RAM I opted for the 64-bit version of the distro to make full use of it.

Having Eclipse and the Android SDK ‘installed’ on my separate /home partition I didn’t need to bother reinstalling everything (but my blog post on how to do it still holds) so assumed I was good to go – but I was wrong.

SCRUM Down

With my PRINCE2 Practitioner status about to expire I wanted to replace it with something a bit more relevant in the current market. While PRINCE2 is still a recognised qualification I just have not found any need for it since leaving Local Government. Very few jobs that I was interested in required it and when I mentioned it in interviews etc I found that it was not really working greatly in my favor. With the cost of a two day recertification course around £399+VAT and following my attendance at a #digpen event back in March where Derek Davidson of WebGate International bestowed the virtues of SCRUM and Agile I decided to look into it a little deeper.

Contracting – A Year (Almost) After Taking the Leap

So it was about this time last year that i decided to move out of Permanent employment and into the cattle market that is Contracting. Looking back I have to say that I’m happy with my decision and have no regrets on that front. That said, the last year has not been plain sailing and in this post (during which I will try not to rant too much) I’ll try to paint a fair picture of the good and the bad from the last year. Contrary to what many people may think, my decision to enter the Contracting market had nothing to do with charging huge day rates. Yes money is important but, as people who know me will confirm, I always say

“If you don’t like what you are doing then do something else”

Using Client-Side jQuery to Send Data to Server-Side .NET

Back in March 2009 I wrote a blog post about calling code-behind methods using Javascript and while looking at my Google Analytics recently I was surprised to see that this post still receives about 650 hits a month. Why am I surprised? Well the post is almost three years old now and with technology moving on at a rapid rate there are much better (i.e. easier and cleaner) ways of sending data from the client to the server. In this post I’ll demonstrate just one of them which uses jQuery and a standard ASP.NET web application, i.e. not MVC although there is no reason why this approach will not work just as well there as well.

First Android Application Released – FillLPG

To those of you who are are following the mini-series on using maps in Android it will not come as a great surpise that I have now released my first Android application which implements Google Maps.